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Moustapha Akkad
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Moustapha Akkad (مصطفى العقاد): A Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for his work on the “Halloween” series and the films “The Message” and “Lion of the Desert.” He aimed to bridge cultural gaps through his films. Tragically, he was killed in the 2005 Amman bombings.
“My dream is to spread the Arabic language all over the world” | Habib Kassem | 9273 Roots #15
He's the Franco-Lebanese computer engineer who inherited a love for Arabic from his professor father. Habib Kassem discusses creating his app, Assiraj Almonir, and the "nights of hard work" it took to compress one terabyte of linguistic data into just 16 megabytes.
Al-Kindi: The Arab Pioneer of Cryptology & Frequency Analysis
One of the greatest Arab scholars, al-Kindi (الْكِنْدِي), was one of the pioneers of cryptology. How did he manage to decrypt messages?
